Fox LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin 1.0.4.7 - 1.0.5.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via 'createOrder'

Improper Input Validation
CVE CVE-2025-14156
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published December 15, 2025
Last Updated December 15, 2025
Researcher kr0d
Description

The Fox LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.5.1. This is due to the plugin not properly validating the 'role' parameter when creating new users via the `/fox-lms/v1/payments/create-order` REST API endpoint. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create new user accounts with arbitrary roles, including administrator, leading to complete site compromise.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug fox-lms (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 1.0.4.7 - 1.0.5.1
Patched Version
  • 1.0.5.2
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